The paper is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust.

Jonathan Harmsworth is the great-grandson of one of the original co-founders, and is now the current chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust.

A survey in 2014 showed that the average age of readers for the Daily Mail was 58, and it had the lowest demographic for 15- to 44- year-old among the major British dailies.

The Daily Mail has been noted for its unreliability and widely criticized for its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research.

The head office is located in Northcliffe House in Kensington, London.

Events ran by the Daily Mail and General (DMG) events include ADIPEC, Global Petroleum Show, Gastech, The Big 5, Index and The Hotel Show.

In addition to housing the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) head office, the building also houses the offices of The Independent series, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Evening Standard, Metro and Metro.co.uk.

The Mail on Sunday – The sister paper of the Daily Mail, published weekly on Sundays. First published in 1982.

Risk Management Solutions (RMS), which targets the global property and casualty reinsurance industry, producing risk analysis models, services, expertise and data solutions for use in the quantification and management of catastrophic risk, is involved in catastrophe risk modelling, and is a subsidiary of the DMGT group.